The lawyer for the late Sumeet and Pallavi Dhawan is resisting the invitation — and perhaps the temptation — to blame the Frisco Police Department, at least in part, for the couple’s death.

“I’m not going to be that guy,” said David Finn, who for months has pushed detectives to either present their evidence or drop the case against Mrs. Dhawan in the death of her 10-year-old son in January. “I’m going to let people reach their own conclusions.”

On Wednesday, a family member reportedly discovered two bodies at the Dhawan residence: a woman in the backyard swimming pool, and a man inside the house. Finn said he had heard from relatives in India that they have been notified that Sumeet and Dhawan had died, and Thursday evening Frisco police confirmed that the bodies were the couple's.

With no official word on how they died, there’s no way to know what happened. But they haven’t had much peace since their boy, Arnav, died early this year, and police accused Pallavi of killing him.

Arnav was found dead, lying in a bathtub, surrounded by melting bags of ice. A medical examiner estimated he had been dead for about five days. Police discovered the boy after Sumeet, returning home from a business trip, found his obviously distraught wife leaving the house.

Police quickly called a press conference saying they were charging Pallavi because she had nodded “yes” when asked whether she had killed her son.

There were no signs that Arnav died a violent death, but Pallavi’s behavior was odd. She was strange. She didn’t act the way grieving mothers are supposed to act.

And that oddness, that strangeness, has been the foundation of the department’s open-ended investigation since that day. Even after a medical examiner ruled that the boy “most likely” died as a result of his documented medical problems, the murder charge stood.

There was no medical evidence of a homicide. Nothing to contradict Pallavi’s explanation that, in placing Arnav in the bathtub, she had been trying to conform to Hindu custom requiring the body be preserved until his father could return home and perform final rites.

You don’t need much more legal study than a couple of John Grisham novels to know there was not enough evidence to prove Pallavi murdered her son, or that there was even a murder at all.

Yet police let the case drag on and on, refusing to drop charges against Pallavi despite the fact that no new evidence beyond “she was odd and strange” ever was made public.

And the months went by. Finn, frustrated by police intransigence, pressed for a court ruling that would either close the investigation or allow it to proceed to the Collin County district attorney or grand jury.

He made little secret of the fact that he believed police purposely stranded Pallavi in an open-ended legal limbo because they were embarrassed that they had jumped so quickly to publicly accuse her of murder -- which was about the only time in this sad case they have made a speedy public disclosure of anything.

Throughout all these months, the police case against Pallavi seems to have been that she couldn’t conclusively prove her innocence -- and that she was odd and strange.

I’ll pass over the fact that the behavior of a person whose child has just died, who is frightened and distraught, and who is living in a strange culture may come across as odd. The legal reality is that Pallavi Dhawan was entitled to a presumption of innocence, a right she was denied since the minute Arnav’s body was found.

This moribund case was moving at last. Sumeet testified for three hours before a Collin County grand jury last week, and Finn said he was confident that a conclusion legally clearing Pallavi would have been in sight.

Maybe it wasn’t soon enough. Perhaps one or both of the Dhawans, who yearned to revisit their home in India but could not because of the legal cloud hanging over Pallavi, just couldn’t wait any longer. Perhaps their experience with American justice was so painful and protracted that one or both of them simply gave up hope.

Maybe that’s what happened, but I can understand why Finn won’t go on the record and say so. He can speculate, but he can’t prove it.